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Gletschergarten (Glacier Garden)
Gletschergarten (Glacier Garden) Review
This tourist attraction, excavated between 1872 and 1875, shows stones that have been dramatically pocked and polished by Ice Age glaciers. A private museum on the site displays impressive relief maps of Switzerland and an elaborate 19th-century hall of mirrors.
- Address: Denkmalstr. 4, Luzern, Luzern, 6006 | Map It
- Phone: 041/4104340
- Cost: 12 SF
- Hours: Apr.--Oct., daily 9--6; Nov.--Mar., daily 10--5
- Website: www.gletschergarten.ch
- Location: Luzern
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